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Taming The Cheetah In India

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
February
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Taming the Cheetah In India.

The cheetah is tied in all directions, principally from a thick grummet of rope around his loins, while a hood fitted over his head effectually blinds him. He is fastened on a strong cot bedstead, and the keepers and their wives and families reduce him to submission by starving him and keeping him awake. His head is made to face the village street, and for an hour at a time several times a day his keepers make pretended rushes at him and wave cloths, staves and other articles in his face. He is talked to continually and women's tongues are believed to be most effective antisoporifics. No created being could resist the effects of hunger, want of sleep and feminine scolding, and the poor cheetah becomes piteously, abjectly tame. - "Beast and Man in India."